71My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.+2Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.+3Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.+4Say unto wisdom, Thou
art my sister; and call understanding
thy kinswoman:+5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger
which flattereth with her words.+6For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,+7And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,+8Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,+9In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:+10And, behold, there met him a woman
with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.+11(She
is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:+12Now
is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)+13So she caught him, and kissed him,
and with an impudent face said unto him,+14I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.+15Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.+16I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved
works,
with fine linen of Egypt.+17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.+18Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.+19For the goodman
is not at home, he is gone a long journey:+20He hath taken a bag of money with him,
and will come home at the day appointed.+21With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.+22He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;+23Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it
is for his life.+24Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.+25Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.+26For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong
men
have been slain by her.+27Her house
is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.+
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